12 easy and delicious recipes with hake

Hake Baked With Potatoes

If you are looking for easy recipes with hake, one of the undisputed stars is baked hake with potatoes, since cooking in the oven is one of the easiest ways to cook.

Preheat the oven to 220º.
Sauté some slices of garlic together with onion and red pepper cut into thin strips.
In a baking dish, place peeled and washed potato slices together with the onion and pepper sauce.
Salt and pepper and add a little white wine or lemon juice.
Add a little water without exceeding the potatoes and bake for 25 minutes at 220º.
After this time, place the hake (loins or slices) on the potatoes and bake another 10-15 minutes (until the fish is done but not too long).
Sprinkle with parsley and serve.

You can also make baked hake with other vegetables: carrot, pumpkin, zucchini, apple.

Steamed hake with vegetables

Another less caloric option is to steam hake with vegetables, a light, healthy and delicious dish based on fish, pumpkin, artichokes, broccoli, green beans and a tasty flavored oil.

Hake in green sauce

This compilation could not miss one of the most desired recipes with hake: hake in green sauce or also known as Basque hake. A delicious dish and, much easier than people think.

Leave 200 g of clams in salted water for 1 hour to loosen the sand and rinse them.
Take 200g of peas out of the freezer and leave them in the fridge to thaw.
Wash 4 hake slices, pat dry and season.
Cook 4 eggs in salted water for 10 minutes, cool them in cold water, peel and chop.
Meanwhile, peel 2 cloves of garlic, chop them and brown them in a little oil.
Add a tablespoon of flour, toast it lightly, pour in 600 ml of hot fish stock, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring.
Sprinkle with parsley and add the hake slices, clams, 8 drained canned asparagus and peas, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the eggs, sprinkle with more parsley, and serve.

If you want a lighter version, take a look at our recipe for hake in light green sauce.

Hake Galician

Galician hake also has many admirers, with the characteristic garlic and paprika dressing.

In a large saucepan with a liter of water and a pinch of salt, cook potato slices for approximately 15 minutes.
Carefully place hake slices on top of the potatoes, cover and cook for about 8 minutes. Turn off the heat and let them rest.
Meanwhile, sauté peeled and sliced garlic over low heat until lightly browned; turn off the heat, wait a few seconds and add the sweet paprika.
Assemble the plate with the potatoes underneath, then the hake and season with the garlic and paprika sauce and sprinkle with a pinch of chopped parsley.

If you prefer it to be a little spicy, add hot paprika instead of sweet.

Hake breaded with broad beans

Battered hake is a dish that children or other people who do not like fish love because battered or Roman is better by sight and it is not so objectionable to eat it.

Take the skinless hake loin, wash it, dry it with kitchen paper and cut it into 4 or 5 cm cubes.
Season, roll in flour and gently shake to remove excess.
Pour plenty of oil in a pan and put it on the fire until it is very hot, but not smoking.
Just before, pass the floured cubes through beaten egg and fry them, in batches, until golden brown.
Drain on kitchen paper and serve with some canned beans sautéed with a little onion and lemon wedges.

You can also accompany it with chickpeas, rice, salad …

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Hake stew with potatoes

If you like juicy and spoon dishes, the hake with potatoes is delicious stewed as we have done with this recipe for hake in the casserole.

In a saucepan with oil, sauté onion until golden brown.
Add chopped garlic and tomato, salt and pepper and cook for another 15 minutes.
Add pieces of peeled and washed potato, a pinch of paprika and a bay leaf.
Add to cover the fish broth, bring to a boil and cook covered over low heat for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, make a bite of toast, hazelnuts and chopped fresh parsley.
Add it to the casserole along with cubes of hake loin and cook for 5 more minutes.

You can enrich the stew by adding squid, shrimp, peas or asparagus.

Grilled hake with salad

Another of the recipes with hake suitable for weight loss is grilled hake with salad, one of the super delicious (and easy to make) light weight loss dinners.

Take tomatoes, radishes, red pepper, or other salad ingredients that you have in the fridge, wash and chop them.
Spread them out on a bed of young shoots.
Wash a hake loin and grill it.
Season with olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped chives or parsley.

If you want the hake to be very juicy, grill it with the skin and cover them with aluminum foil; so it won't lose its juices.

Hake meatballs

Hake meatballs are also very good for the eyes, they have an appetizing look and do not have any skin or bones.

Wash 1 kg of hake without skin or bones and chop it.
Soak a slice of sliced bread in a little plain or coconut milk.
Mix with the hake and 1 chopped spring onion and fresh basil.
Form meatballs, pass them through beaten egg and fry them in oil.

Accompany them with sauteed vegetables. And if you want them to be more exotic, after sautéing them, fry them for a few minutes with a little coconut milk.

Cake Hake and Prawns

The hake cake with prawns is also delicious , a delicious dish with a spectacular look.

Take 400 g of hake, remove the skin and bones and shred it.
Peel 8 cooked prawns or prawns, cook them for 2 minutes in salted water and drain.
In a bowl, beat 3 eggs, pour in 200 ml of liquid cream, 200 ml of milk, 200 ml of tomato sauce and the shredded hake, and mix.
Add chopped parsley, salt and pepper and mix again.
Divide into four individual molds and bake in a bain-marie, in a preheated oven at 180º for 30 minutes.
Let cool and reserve in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Unmold, put the prawns on top and some parsley leaves, and serve with pink sauce.

You can also cook it all together in a single large pan, instead of individual ones.

Hake in Papillote

Another way to cook hake with almost no fat is to make hake in papillote, one of the easy and irresistible dinner ideas, because in addition to being delicious it is not indigestible.

Cut 4 large rectangles from parchment paper.
Make thin sticks of scraped carrot, peeled onion, and washed green pepper.
Wash 4 hake fillets, salt and pepper them and distribute them together with the vegetables on the paper rectangles.
Add a little white wine and oil to each packet; close and bake for 12 minutes at 180 °.
Open them carefully, so as not to burn yourself with the steam.

To garnish, you can use lemon juice or a mixture of garlic and parsley crushed with a thread of oil.

Hake with seafood

Another very juicy dish is hake a la marinara, another of the stars of recipes with hake, and very easy to make.

Peel 8 prawns and reserve the tails, shells and heads.
Chop 1 onion and 1 leek and simmer them in a saucepan with a little oil.
Add 2 cloves of minced garlic, 1 carrot cut into slices, the tails, the shells and the heads of the prawns, and salt and pepper.
Pour a glass of water, cover and cook for 20 minutes.
Blend everything and pass it through the Chinese strainer to obtain a fine sauce.
Brown 4 hake slices in a pan with a few drops of oil and add them to the casserole with the sauce.
Add the prawn tails and some washed clams, cook for 5 minutes all together, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

If the sauce is not too thick, add a teaspoon of cornstarch diluted in a little water.

Hake with ratatouille

And you can also cook the hake with food that you have prepared in advance or take advantage of the leftovers from another meal to save time. This is what we have done with this hake with ratatouille.

Steam or grill a washed and dried hake loin with a thread of oil in a frying pan.
Serve it on a bed of ratatouille, sanfaina or sauteed vegetables.
Garnish it with aromatic herbs and a thread of olive oil.